I've been participating in the "100 Days of Dante" project headed by Baylor University. Today I read Canto 29, and watched the associated YouTube video, which have usually been very helpful. Here is my response to that video:
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I submit that even if we accept the idea that Covid originated in a Wuhan lab,* we must remember that the vaccines that have combated this virus also originated in labs. We Christians need to be careful as we speak about science. We can either see science as "thinking God's thoughts after Him," or we can see it as our chance to usurp him, control nature and bend it to our will.
I think Dr. Clark missed an opportunity to contrast the intentions of the alchemists with the intentions of medieval Christian figures like Albert the Great and Robert Grosseteste. Yes, we can excel as "apes to nature," but we can also worship God with our minds and strength. He gives us the choice. I thank God for scientists like Dr. Frances Collins, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Dr. Emily Smith (aka, "The Friendly Neighborhood Epidemiologist") who have chosen the latter path.
*this is not a foregone conclusion. For example, see "The COVID lab-leak hypothesis: what scientists do and don't know, " in Nature, 594 , 313-315 (2021)"
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